Microsoft, Intel Work to Adapt
Windows for Advanced Chips

ATLANTA -- Microsoft Corp. and Intel Corp. said they are working on adapting Microsoft's Windows NT operating system for the next generation of Intel microprocessor chips.

Intel's IA-64 chip family will be its first to process 64 bits of data at a time, compared with 32 bits for most conventional microprocessors. Intel, based in Santa Clara, Calif., said at a trade show here that it expects volume shipments of the first member of the...